2014 Newsletter

Professor Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate, at the African Studies1 Centre before delivering the Annual Lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre. Welcome to the African Studies Newsletter 2013-2014

The last academic year was an A month later, Professor David Pratten, Professor Ramon Sarró, and Fyssen Fellow Laurent Gabail, organized a exciting one for the African Studies workshop on “Technologies of Transformation: African Centre. One of the highlights was Perspectives”. The event attracted a set of excellent our hugely insightful run of talks and speakers from as far afield as Bayreuth and Boston. The same month, we were honored to welcome Professor Wole seminars. Beginning in October 2013, we Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate, who gave the co-hosted a “policy meets the academy” African Studies Annual Lecture to a packed Sheldonian workshop on the impact of extractive Theatre, rounding off a remarkable year of events. industries in Africa with OXFAM. As usual, seminars and conferences went hand-in-hand Speakers included Winnie Byanyima, with our research and publications. David Pratten published a thought-provoking chapter on the “Precariousness Wole Soyinka and Nic Cheesman the International Executive Director of of Prebendalism” in Democracy and Prebendalism in OXFAM International, Morgan Tsvangirai, Nigeria, edited by Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare he revisited the site of his 2002 book, Midlands, which We are also delighted to announce the launch of two new the former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, (2013, Palgrave). For my part, I edited a special issue investigated the murder of the son of a white farmer in research prizes this year. The Royal Air Maroc Africa Oxford of the Journal of Eastern African Studies, 8, 1 (2014) on 1999. You can read the article here: http://www.granta. Awards will provide three Oxford students a year with free and Sam Kutesa, the Ugandan Foreign the Kenyan elections of 2013 and published an article com/Archive/126/The-Defeated. air travel to Africa. The Winihin Jemide Series Research Minister. For many of our MSc students, with Paul Chaisty and Tim Power on presidentialism in Prize for Women in African Government and Politics will the debate between these African Africa, Latin America and post-communist Europe in The African Studies MSc continues to go from strength provide research grants of £2,000 to two graduate students the journal Democratization, 21, 1 (2014). Miles Larmer to strength, and this year we had a record number of conducting research on gender and politics in Africa. We leaders and representatives of major and I collaborated on a piece in the same journal on applications. Our MSc students are the lifeblood of the are very grateful to Royal Air Maroc and the Winihin Jemide international oil and gas companies was “Ethnopopulism in Africa”, which draws on our research Centre and this year’s cohort contributed a great deal Series for their support. one of the highlights of the year. on Zambia and Kenya respectively. Miles also released to the University during their short time here. As well as two articles from his new research project on the history organizing a wider range of fascinating social and academic This year, the Centre welcomed two excellent administrators, of Katanga. The first, on the Kataganese gendarmes and events, MSc students were at the forefront of the Oxford Anniella Hutchinson and Siobhan Coote. It was their energy Following this in February 2014, Professor Dennis Goldberg, the Shaba wars of 1977-78, was published in the journal Africa Society (Afrisoc), which with the Saïd Business and dedication that made it possible to organize such a the legendary anti-apartheid activist, gave the Bram Cold War History, 13, 1 (2013). The second, in which Miles School organized the 2014 “Oxford Africa Conference: vibrant set of events while ensuring that the Centre ran Fischer Memorial Lecture, an annual event that remembers and Erik Kennes rethink the Katangese Secession, was African Transformations” one of the world’s leading smoothly. At the end of the year, Siobhan left the Centre to the Afrikaner lawyer who defended during published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth student-led Africa conferences. As in previous years, pursue a career in accountancy and I would like to thank her the Rivonia Trial in 1963-4. In a deeply personal and moving History (2014) and is available online. the event drew a range leading policy-makers, business for all her efforts over the past twelve months: she made the account of his friend and colleague, Dennis recalled first leaders and academics. African Studies Centre a more efficient and more enjoyable being inspired by Bram’s courage and personality, and Neil Carrier had a busy year, producing an article on place to be. later caring for him when he became ill with cancer during ethnicity and electoral politics in northern Kenya for the We are proud of the academic success of our MSc their incarceration at the hands of the apartheid regime. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 8, 1 (2014), co-authoring students. A number of MSc dissertations have gone on Finally, I am pleased to announce that Andrea Purdekova has The focus continued in April, when Professor a piece on Somali trade networks with an African Studies to be published in leading journals, and many former agreed to extend her contract with us for another year and William Beinart and doctoral candidate Jason Robinson MSc alumni, Emma Lochery, also in JEAS, 7, 2 (2013), and MSc students have now completed doctorates and are so will stay on as Departmental Lecturer in African Politics. organized a spectacular conference on “20 Years of South co-editing a pathbreaking book on Drugs in Africa with beginning their own academic careers. We are equally Her enthusiasm, insight and commitment have made her a African Democracy” at St Antony’s College. Both the Gernot Klantschnig and Charles Ambler (2014, Palgrave). glad to hear about former students that are enjoying firm favorite with MSc students and colleagues alike, and we former leader of the Democratic Alliance, , and William Beinart co-authored an article on “The Historical careers in the policy world, or working as journalists, or are delighted that she will be part of our team in 2014-2015. the former President of South Africa, Kgalema Molanthe Context and Legacy of the Natives Land Act of 1913” in who have entered the private sector. Do check out the addressed conference delegates. the Journal of Southern African Studies with Peter Delius, alumni updates featured in this newsletter to see what a I will be on research leave next year to write and conduct 40, 4 (2014). He also released a co-authored book with varied and interesting set of trajectories our students have fieldwork in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Happily, Karen Brown that explores a major area of African local followed after graduating. Please make sure that you all Professor William Beinart will take over as Director for knowledge and provides valuable new insights into African keep in touch with us and send us all of your news! the next academic year, and so I can leave Oxford safe in conceptions of cattle disease and treatment in South the knowledge that the Centre will be in an even stronger Africa entitled African Local Knowledge and Livestock Looking ahead, the Centre remains committed to position when I return next September. Health (2013, James Currey). He co-edited, with Karen sustaining and creating scholarships to bring students Middleton and Simon Pooley, Wild Things: Nature and from around the world to Oxford. Having made Kenya my the Social Imagination. Finally, Jonny Steinberg wrote second home for the past eight years, I am particularly Dr Nic Cheeseman important articles on policing and state power in African pleased that St Antony’s College and the Oxford and Director, African Studies Centre Affairs 113, 451 (2014), sexual culture in South Africa in Cambridge Society of Kenya have recently announced a JSAS 39, 3 (2013), and “The Labyrinth of Jewish Security scholarship for a student ordinarily resident in Kenya to Arrangements in South Africa” in the British Journal of study a one-year Masters degree at St Antony’s College. 2 Criminology 54, 2 (2014). In addition to these, Jonny also As ever, we rely on our alumni to help us spread the word 3 published a fascinating article in Granta magazine, in which about these opportunities. Visitors

Dr Emmanuel Akpabio (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University, Japan), visited the Centre in July 2014 Wole Soyinka visit and developed his research on healthcare access among the Nigerian diaspora in the UK. Lighting the African Canon: Wole Soyinka discusses (Fyssen Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Laurent Gabail politics and literature with Oxford students affiliated to the African Studies Centre), is a member of the research team TIP (Traitement Informatique de In addition to giving the annual African Studies lecture, la Parenté/Kinship and Computing), which develops analytical tools and methods for the study of empirical Wole Soyinka, the Nobel prize-winning playwright, kinship networks. During his time at the Centre in author, and political activist, met students for lunch. 2014, he pursued his post-doctoral research agenda, which explores the links between certain modalities of Prior to the lunch, Tiziana Morosetti and Dan initiatory organisation and the recurrence of distinctive Hodgkinson led the workshop that explored the work choreographic forms. Laurent also co-organized of one of the most prominent twentieth-century and presented at a workshop on “Technologies of African writers and political activists who, along with Transformation: African Perspectives” with David Pratten Chinua Achebe and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, established and Ramon Sarró. a world respected African literary canon. The group discussed how Soyinka addressed issues of ‘tradition’ Professor Karl von Holdt (Director of the SWOP and cultural interpretation, colonial and post-colonial programme at the University of the Witwatersrand), education, his experience of prison, and the ways in visited the Centre during Trinity term on an Oppenheimer which he, as playwright, used obfuscatory language as fellowship. He participated in the conference on ‘20 Years a mode of political engagement. of Democracy in South Africa’ and gave a number of valuable presentations at the South African discussion There was no such obfuscation during lunch. Soyinka group and elsewhere. Professor von Holdt’s major focus spoke directly about the current state of Nigeria and was on contemporary social issues in South Africa: reflected on his history of involvement in the country’s mining, strikes, the changing position of workers, popular politics. Boko Haram’s violent Islamist insurgency in the protest and violence. north of the country, he said, had become a military situation requiring a military answer and humanitarian Øystein H. Rolandsen (Senior Researcher, Peace aid. The government – many of whom, he suggested, Research Institute Oslo), spent most of the first half were ‘incapable of walking and chewing gum at the of 2014 at the Centre, working with a team of research assistants on violence, conflict and state survival. Øystein same time’ - had failed to act and been unwilling also organized a major workshop on “Violence, legitimacy to uphold secular institutions, highlighted by the and governance in the Greater Horn”. The presence of institution of sharia law in nine of Nigeria’s northern speakers such as Professors David Anderson (Warwick), states. Asked if the artist had a role in politics, he Christopher Clapham (Cambridge), and William Reno responded that by reading poetry, people are able to (Northwestern) – in addition to Øystein himself – restore their minds and so contribute in meaningful ensured that it was one of the highlights of the year. ways. He also recalled the ideologically charged days of his student activism in the 1950s as a ‘criss-crossing Dr Mats Utas (Head of the research cluster on Conflict, period of ideas’, in which the rise of apartheid in South security and democratic transformation at the Nordic Africa was ‘a burden that had to be exorcised’ and Africa Institute), visited the centre during Michaelmas one ‘had to work hard to not just parrot the slogans and Hilary Terms 2013-14. The purpose of his fellowship of others’. Asked what he would do differently if he was to write and conduct library studies on two projects had his time again, he mentioned he would ‘drink more with focus on West Africa: ‘The Informal Realities of wine, listen to more music, do more hunting.’ Peacebuilding - Military Networks and Former Mid-Level Commanders in Post-War Liberia’, and ‘Between Big The group’s discussion was based upon three of his Man Politics and Democratisation: Local Perceptions and works: the play, Death and the King’s Horseman; the Individual Agency’. novel, The Interpreters; and his collection of poems written during his time in prison during the Biafra war, The Shuttle in the Crypt. 4 5 Denis Goldberg gives the Academic Staff Research Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture Jonny Steinberg 2014 Nic Cheeseman

The annual Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture was In January 1991, when civil war the cosmopolitan streets of inner-city Through Abdullahi’s life history, A given by Professor Denis Goldberg, who spoke on Professor Goldberg came to Mogadishu, the capital of Nairobi to the desert towns deep in the Man of Hope examines a host Bram Fischer: Lawyer, activist, freedom fighter. The Somalia, two-thirds of the city’s Ethiopian hinterland. of African questions: state collapse memorial lecture is in honour of Bram Fischer QC population fled. Among them was in Somalia, the mercurial place of By the time he reached the cusp of clan loyalties in everyday Somali life, (Rhodes scholar, Orange Free State & New College eight-year-old Asad Abdullahi. His 1931), who defended Nelson Mandela and other leaders adulthood, Abdullahi had honed an statelessness and undocumented mother murdered by a militia, his of the liberation movement when on trial for their array of wily talents. At the age of international travel, nationalism and father somewhere in hiding, he was lives, and who himself died in imprisonment in 1975. seventeen, in the Ethiopian capital, xenophobia. Before the Bram Fischer lecture started, Stephen swept alone into the great wartime Addis Ababa, he made good as a Above all, it is an Clingman, the biographer of Bram Fischer, set the migration that scattered the Somali street hustler, brokering relationships exploration of scene by speaking on the theme of Bram Fischer and people throughout sub-Saharan between hardnosed businessmen and the meaning of a the Democratic Transition in South Africa. Africa and the world. bewildered Somali refugees. He also human life shorn courted the famously beautiful Foosiya, of foundations. Goldberg’s talk was wide ranging, deeply personal and very I’ve just completed a book on and, to the astonishment of his peers, moving. He recounted his early meetings with Bram Fischer, Abdullahi’s life story. It is called A Man seduced and married her. and his memories from the Rivonia Trial and later as a fellow of Good Hope and will be published by prisoner for nine years until Bram Fischer’s death from Jonathan Cape in January 2015. Serially Buoyed by success in work and in love, cancer. Goldberg spoke about Bram Fischer’s life of great betrayed by the people who promised Abdullahi put $1200 in his pocket and contradictions and of strong personal convictions, describing to care for him, Abdullahi lived his made his way down the length of the a man who supressed his emotions but who had a ‘twinkly childhood at a sceptical remove African continent to Johannesburg, sense of fun’. from the adult world, his relation to South Africa, where he was caught up others wary and tactical. He lived in in the xenophobic violence that gripped Denis Goldberg aimed to describe the whole man, focusing a bewildering number of places, from that country in April 2008. both on his political activism, but also his love of classical and formal jazz music. He recounted memories such as Fischer’s reading from Alice in Wonderland during one Christmas in prison. It was an account of captivity and a fight for freedom; SIAS garden party not for individual freedom but the freedom found within Denis Goldberg grew up in Cape Town and took part in African Studies social justice. forming the Congress of Democrats, of which he became Prizes 2012-13 leader. This in turn allied itself with the African National The Warden of Rhodes House, Charles Conn (Rhodes Congress (ANC) and other congresses and in 1961 when scholar, Massachusetts & Balliol 1983), commented: “It was the underground armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe was a remarkable speech and I found the reflections on their founded, Goldberg became a technical officer. In 1963 he was shared time in prison very evocative. The historical context arrested at their Rivonia headquarters. He was sentenced in Kirk-Greene Prize for Best of the time was brought to life and it was an honour to hear 1964 at the end of the famous Rivonia Trial to four terms of Professor Goldberg’s memories and insights.” Overall Performance: life imprisonment. In 1985, after 22 years in prison, he was Alexandra Letcher released and moved to London where he resumed his work in the ANC in its London office from 1985 to 1994. He was a spokesperson for the ANC and also represented it at the Terence Ranger Prize for the Thursday 27 February 2014 Anti-Apartheid Committee of the United Nations. A large Best Dissertation Performance: The Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture The Lecture is an annual event held as part of the African Studies Seminar series. It has no endowment and is run group of US organisations presented Professor Goldberg entirely on donations and the support of Rhodes House and the African Studies Centre. Donations of time and money Amelia Kuch to support future lectures would be greatly appreciated. Contact [email protected] with the Albert Luthuli Peace Prize in recognition of his work The Alliance for Lawyers at Risk This year a collection will take place after the Lecture for the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk. The Alliance draws on the against apartheid. expertise and resources of the British legal profession to link with lawyers at risk abroad, helping to protect them and promote their work. Peace Bridage International send international volunteer observers who offer unarmed accompaniment to many lawyers and other human rights defenders working on legal cases, often making the African Studies Prize for the difference between life and death. Their lives are in danger due to their efforts to promote and protect human rights and challenge human rights violations committed in their countries. In Colombia alone, as many as 25 lawyers This year’s Bram Fischer Lecture also supported the work of are killed each year. We are proud to support the important work of the Alliance. Please give generously. For more information visit www.peacebrigades.org.uk/country-groups/pbi-uk/alliance-for-lawyers-at-risk/ ford Most Innovative Dissertation: re, University of Ox The African Studies Cent ’s the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk, and was dedicated to the ships y of Oxford is one of the world Rhodes House and the Rhodes Scholar The Universit y ord, is the home of the Rhodes entres for the study of Africa. In ever Bennett Collins Rhodes House, Oxf ing leading c ss the University there memory of Wanyama Wanyonyi, a lawyer in Kenya who was tgraduate awards support Faculty and Division acro Scholarships, pos om diverse countries ch programmes focused on the ound students fr are active resear , within the exceptional all-r ford. Established in tudies Centre assassinated in September 2013. y of Ox continent. 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The commitment of the Rhodes in African S THE country estigious and rope’s most pr e Africa is reflected today in 16 Rhodes Scholars recognised as Eu or mor ral African countries, and in its essful training programme in its field. F each year from seve succ tudies Seminars go to human rights lawyer, activist, and justice of South Africa’s information about African S partnership with Nelson Mandela ints theAfrican Mandela students ox.ac.uk/events AM FISCHER www.africanstudies. BR Rhodes Foundation, which suppor graduate study in South Africa. Constitutional Court. The Lecture will be held at Rhodes undertaking post t Baker, re as designed by Sir Herber The African Studies Cent Rhodes House w xford, OX2 6LH 13 Bevington Road, O ORIAL House on Tuesday 16 June 2015 at 17:00. who designed major publicyens buildings on the in design South ofAfrica New ox.ac.uk MEM ated with Lut www.africanstudies. and collabor ers facilities for Delhi. 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‘a path-breaking view of South African animal disease and remedies where African owners are concerned. Focusing on local veterinary knowledge and

therapeutics by African owners in such depth through 200 interviews in five So we decided over 250 people. Exploring local or On 24 October 2013, the African Studies Exploration Director of Rio Tinto and a Although both of these panels were lively & BROWN & areas is innovative and opens up an original field of knowledge and practice. BEINART to embark on indigenous knowledge has been at the Professor Anne Digby, Oxford Brookes University Centre held its first major joint event with number of other panelists including Dereje and well attended, for many MSc students interviews. It has heart of African Studies for a generation, ‘By incorporating cultural, scientific, national and political perspectives, the Oxfam, the pioneering organization that Alemayehu, Chair of the Global Alliance the highlight of the day came when ’– authors ... provide background … to the implementation of relevant policies been a fascinating particularly as part of the critique of has campaigned for social justice in Africa for Tax Justice, about how Africa’s natural Winnie Byanyima, the Executive director and reveal the stark resource and knowledge divide between rural and experience for centralised, top-down development. We commercial sectors since 1942. The idea for the event emerged resources can best be managed – and who of Oxford, presided over a roundtable

Pretoria ’ – Arthur Spickett, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, both of us and our hope that our book will be a significant African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health Livestock & Knowledge Local African

DISEASES & TREATMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH IN TREATMENTS & DISEASES when Winnie Byanyima, the recently should take responsibility for doing so. discussion that included Hon. Morgan Understanding local knowledge has become a central academic project research required contribution to this general field. We appointed Executive Director of Oxfam, Richard Tsvangirai, Former Prime Minister among those interested in Africa and developing countries. In South a particularly steep found that there was no overwhelming Africa, land reform is gathering pace and animal health has become a approached me and suggested that there In the second, Rupert Younger, the of Zimbabwe, and Hon. Sam Kutesa, central issue for rural development. Yet African veterinary medical learning curve shift towards a biomedical understanding might be interesting and important ways Director of Oxford’s Centre for Corporate Ugandan Minister of Foreign Affairs. The knowledge remains largely unrecorded. This book captures for the first because we had to of animal diseases, even in areas colonised time the diversity, as well as the limits, of a major sphere of local in which the African Studies Centre and Reputation managed an engaging debate sight of senior African leaders debating knowledge. gain greater familiarity for well over a century. Our research Oxfam could work together. I quickly over how to promote transparency in the the rights and wrongs of natural resource Beinart and Brown argue that African approaches to animal health rest with veterinary suggests that natural, environmental and agreed: although Oxfam was founded in boardrooms of multinationals and the policy with each other, the representatives largely in environmental and nutritional explanations. The authors also science as well as local nutritional understandings of disease are explore concerns about supernatural threats, such as mohato and Oxford (the name is a shorted version cabinet meetings of African governments. of multinational companies, academic umkhondo, and the widespread use of plants as well as biomedicines for knowledge. still very significant, mirrored by the use of “The Oxford Committee for Famine Only when we know more about the deals experts, and influential NGOs, was one of healing. They take the reader into the homesteads and kraals of rural of plant medicines. Treatments were more black South Africans and vividly report the ideas of livestock owners. This Relief”) and its international headquarters that are being signed will it be possible to the highlights of the year. is groundbreaking research which will have important implications for The interviews hybrid; many also used biomedicines, at are still located here, there has not been as tell how fair they are, and how much they analyses of local knowledge generally and public policy in South Africa. certainly confirmed least when they could afford them. I was particularly pleased that we were William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, African Studies much contact between the Centre and the actually benefit ordinary citizens. Speakers Centre, University of Oxford; that animal health charity as you might expect. weighing in on this important topic able to host such a vibrant and vital debate Wellcome Unit for the History Karenof Medicine, Brown University is Research of Oxford. Associate at the was a major sphere of Respondents did not generally attribute included Chris Austin from the UK Cabinet in Oxford. The collaboration gave the Cover photograph: Cattle after dipping in Mbotyi, Mpondoland, Eastern Cape, South African local knowledge disease to witchcraft. We heard more Africa, 2012 © William Beinart) The opportunity to hold a “the academy Office and our very own pair of experts, African Studies Centre an opportunity to and that livestock frequent reference to what we have meets policy event” was too good to Ricardo Soares de Oliviera and Tony showcase the significant contributions that remain economically and called the ambient supernatural, often miss. It soon became clear that our Venables. While opinions differed over faculty in African studies make to policy WILLIAM BEINART & KAREN BROWN culturally significant for associated with words for footprints - shared interests converged on the exactly how to promote transparency, all debates around the world – something hundreds of thousands the concepts of mohato and umkhondo question of extractive industries and speakers agreed that it would be a good that often occurs out of the public eye to African Local of smallholder owners in respectively. Neither of these appears how the proceeds from natural resources thing if the policy community could work little fanfare. The opportunity to work with JAMES CURREY an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd South Africa. Understanding in the older ethnographies and we see PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF and such as oil, coal, gas, gold can be used with companies and governments in order Oxfam made me realize just how much we 668 Mt Hope Ave, Rochester NY 14620, USA Knowledge local knowledge in this them as hybrid supernatural concepts www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN 978-1-84701-083-4 to reduce poverty and improve public to increase the quality of information can learn from them, and how much they www.jamescurrey.com & Livestock Health sphere is all the more drawing both on older ideas of witchcraft service delivery in Africa. On the first about resource extraction contracts that are interested in learning from us. We hope 9 781847 010834 DISEASES & TREATMENTS important because after and pollution, as well as newer ideas of panel, Heather Stewart, the Economics reaches the public domain. to further strengthen our collaboration IN SOUTH AFRICA 1994, the ANC government infection. Mohato was associated with Editor of The Guardian moderated a with further events on a range of different curtailed national veterinary menstruating women and widows – an discussion between Kevin Fox, the topics in the coming years. provision. It is anomalous informant talked of ‘cross infection’ that the state has partially between women and cattle. Umkhondo withdrawn just as African was often associated with the deposition people have the opportunity of disease in the dew to which animals to expand livestock holdings. would succumb if they crossed infected Many perceived there to be a traces. We started research on this joint project crisis in livestock health, particularly in the in 2008 blessed with an ESRC grant. We control of ticks. Richard Msezwa, in his Our research determinedly sought a felt that it had been a neglected theme sixties, recalled “when I was a boy herding wide range of local knowledge but also in South African history and a central you seldom saw ticks in the veld. If you points to its limits, as well as to local area of connection and contestation saw a tick you would get excited and uncertainty about how to deal with many between the state and rural communities. call the other herdboys over. Now if you scourges of livestock. We conclude the Our separate writing included, over walk through grass your trousers become book with recommendations (see the the years, discussion of African black with ticks.” Outreach Report and summary under reactions to state interventions around our names at africanstudies.ox.ac. epizootics from rinderpest to rabies. Karen worked largely in North Western uk). We don’t pretend to be veterinary In the process, we became interested Province with Barbara Kgari, who proved experts and these are not directive. They in African conceptualisations of animal to be a wonderful research assistant. propose that more effective strategies diseases. There was little written in this William interviewed in Mpondoland on might emerge from a dialogue between field, even in the classic ethnographies. the east coast, where he had researched scientific and local knowledge, between on rural history and resistance in state and livestock owners. earlier years. Sonwabile Mkhanywa provided invaluable assistance. With 8 9 our collaborators, we interviewed Winnie Byanyima, Morgan Tsvangirai, African Development Bank vice-president and chief economist Mthuli Ncube, and Sam Kutesa South African opposition leader visits Oxford William Attwell (MSc 2009 now Africa Analyst at Oxford Analytica Ltd.)

Former South African opposition ruling ANC. Mazibuko also answered She has been touted as a possible leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko, visited questions about difficulties facing successor to DA party leader Helen Oxford on June 16 to address a special the implementation of the National Zille. In 2012, Mazibuko was named session of the South African Discussion Development Plan - the country’s South Africa’s ‘most influential woman’ Group. Mazibuko had recently stepped broadly centrist economic policy - and, in 2013, was listed as one of down from her position as leader of given the factions and ideological Africa’s top 20 ‘young power women’ the official opposition, the Democratic differences within the ruling alliance. by Forbes and by CNN’s Christiane Alliance, in the National Assembly Amanpour as one of the world’s and was en route to take up a Mason On her own plans, Mazibuko spoke ‘bravest women’ for her campaigns Fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School about her desire to ‘take a step back’ in against rape and domestic abuse. of Government. order to develop her own expertise in public policy. She said she specifically Her address to the packed seminar wants to learn about how other covered a wide range of topics, countries have dealt with economic including her reflections on the results empowerment, redress and land of SA’s national elections in May, reform-related issues and whether Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa, with Colin Bundy, William Beinart and Jason Robinson President Jacob Zuma’s leadership, the these present lessons for South Africa. oversight role of Parliament and her Mazibuko strongly encouraged African own future plans. students studying at Oxford to hone their skills and use them to contribute 1994-2014: 20 Years of Students and faculty members were to the development of their home then invited to engage with Mazibuko countries, whether in the fields of during a Q&A. Many questions focused politics, government, civil society or South African Democracy on voting patterns following the business. Jason Robinson May elections, and specifically the Lindiwe Mazibuko, second from left, Democratic Alliance’s efforts to attract Mazibuko was the fourth youngest with Sebabatso Manoeli, William Beinart, Coinciding with the 20 anniversary black voters, in a country where many MP in the legislature and the first black William Attwell, Khumisho Moguerane, as two very special sessions on the The Conference proved a truly people feel a strong affinity for the woman to lead the opposition benches. Jonny Steinberg of South Africa’s first democratic opening day of the Conference. The engaging affair with fascinating elections, 1994-2014: 20 years Centre was proud to host the then- interactions and dialogue between of South African Democracy Deputy President of South Africa participants from South Africa, the proved an opportunity to analyse Kgalema Motlanthe who delivered the UK and further afield. A number of the transition in the 1990s, the keynote address, Building a Democratic publications are planned to reflect debates and discussions that subsequent consolidation of and Inclusive Society: the Journey of 20 years of Freedom. Professors emerged during the three days of the democracy and the nature of Anthony Butler, Ruth Hall and Xolela Conference. political authority in South Africa. Mangcu acted as respondents, putting hard-hitting questions to the Deputy The Conference would not have been Taking place at St. Antony’s College President on the content of his address possible without the help of Professor between 24-26th April 2014, the and ANC rule in South Africa since William Beinart, as well as the Conference Steering Committee and Conference consisted of over thirty- 1994; what followed was a fascinating the conference assistants who helped two academic panels, a day-long engagement between the speaker on the days itself. Thanks also to roundtable session on Provincial and the respondents (one which was those from outside the university who Government (hosted in conjunction covered in pieces in Business Day, with the Gauteng Legislature Core supported the Conference: The Journal The Financial Mail and The Times). of Southern African Studies, African Business Division) and a performance Later that evening, a plenary session of Matthew Hahn’s The Robben Island Studies Association UK (ASAUK), chaired by Dr. Jonny Steinberg saw a Public Affairs Research Institute Bible (sponsored by Brand South lively debate between Adam Habib, Africa). The Conference also was (PARI), Sumaridge Estate Wines, The Tony Leon and Xolela Mangcu. The Africa Report, Brand South Africa, the host to a number of book launches final session of the Conference saw Gauteng Provincial Legislature (GPL), (including texts by current and former Professor William Beinart chair a Wits University Press, Ohio members and visitors of the Centre, session on the ‘ANC, Capital and University Press and such as Colin Bundy, Tim Gibbs, Adam Labour’ involving Colin Coleman, Adam James Currey. 10 Habib and Hugh Macmillan) as well Habib and Jeremy Seekings. 11 Oxford Current Eni scholars plus Eni representative Oxford University Central China Africa Africa Forum Network

The OUCAN conference on African With twenty-one lectures and seminars, the Development, The China Model and the 2013–14 academic year was nearly as eventful Politics of Industrialisation, which was as the Oxford Central Africa Forum’s (OCAF’s) jointly organised with Fudan University, was inaugural 2010–11 year. attended by scholars, graduate students, NGO representatives, media professionals, Thanks to the support from the African Studies Centre, diplomats as well as the Ambassadors of Balliol College, the Centre for International Studies, Lady the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Federal Margaret Hall, and Nuffield College, we were able to Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Through host several distinguished speakers, including Dr Marielle social media, conference participants also Debos (University Paris West Nanterre), who discussed brought highlights of the key note speech the role of combatants in Chad’s “inter-war,” Professor and the panel discussions to cyberspace, Koen Vlassenroot (Ghent University), who spoke about public authority in the eastern DRC, and Professor Andreas continuing the debates there. Mehler (GIGA, Hamburg), who examined the deeper

governance issues undergirding on-going violence in the A first emerging lesson of the conference was that Chinese diplomats and business elites still lack CAR. Other events covered Burundi, Rwanda, South Sudan, the confidence and the political will to actively Uganda, and – to inspire cross-subregional comparisons – promote or export a “China Model”. Moreover, the Liberia and Sierra Leone, with Professor Mats Utas (Nordic contradictions between Western approaches to Africa Institute) discussing commander–soldier networks the global political economy and Chinese economic in post-conflict reconstruction. Our biggest event was a African Transformations (Afrisoc) policies overseas should not be overstated- there lecture to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the is more continuity and similarity than change and Rwandan Genocide, given by Johan Swinnen (Belgium’s Sebabatso Manoeli difference. Whether in Africa or elsewhere, China is ambassador to Rwanda from 1990 to 1994), with a increasingly seen not as a radically unique partner Rwandan government delegation in attendance. As always, Leading African political, business This year’s event merged the Oxford University Pan-African Conference and or threat, but as a normal great power involved we also hosted many doctoral students and early-career and social figures converged at the Oxford Africa Business Conference into a two-day event. The impressive in the multifarious, complex and often ambiguous scholars from all over the UK. Oxford University in May 2014 list of 68 distinguished speakers from all across Africa included: activities and practices that characterise states of for one of the world’s premier ◗ Valentine Rugwabiza, CEO of the Rwandan Development Bank; its systemic importance. We wish to thank all those who co-organized some of student-run Africa-focused

these events, and – last but certainly not least – everyone conferences: the 2014 Oxford ◗ Yusuf A. Nzibo, Commissioner, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Put differently, most conference participants who attended and participated in them. Commission, Kenya; showed themselves rather sceptical about the Africa Conference. Titled ‘African existence of a coherent, clearly identifiable China Transformations’, the conference ◗ Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director, Oxfam International; model that holds unambiguous, specific lessons for was co-convened by the Oxford ◗ Hakeem Belo-Osagie, Chairman Etisalat Nigeria; African states as they try to pursue industrialisation University Africa Society and ◗ and navigate the international system. While most, Saїd Business School with the Kizza Besigye, Politician and former presidential candidate, Uganda; if not all, participants welcomed the salutary effects aim of engaging with African ◗ Kennedy Bungane, CEO Barclays Africa (outside South Africa); for African countries of the multipolar order to current affairs. which the continent too has been transitioning, the ◗ Bob Collymore, CEO, Safaricom; question of the future of Chinese economic, political ◗ Koos Bekker, Former CEO, Naspers; and possibly military involvement on the continent generated both excitement and apprehension. That ◗ Ian Goldin, former Vice-President of the World Bank. very fact seems to gainsay any claims to Chinese This interactive and intellectually stimulating conference drew approximately exceptionalism- whether in Africa or elsewhere. 450 delegates ranging from students to professionals, and it culminated with a party featuring Lagos-based DJ Caise.

In previous years, the Oxford Africa conferences have attracted leading figures including His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, and the former governor of Nigeria’s central bank, Sanusi Lamido. 12 Please visit 13 www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/events for details of future events Horn of Africa seminar Teaching at the University of Jason Mosley Fort Hare, South Africa Andrea Grant

During 2013-14, the Horn of Africa In August 2013, Micah Reddy and Working closely with FHISER senior re- In addition to teaching, both Micah I headed to East London, South searchers Dr Luvuyo Ntombana and Dr and I presented papers at FHISER’s seminar brought together academics, Teresa Connor, we helped to teach a re- 2013 Round Table Seminar Series. We post-graduates and policymakers/ Africa, to teach at the Fort Hare Institute of Economic and search methods course that was mod- received excellent feedback and were practitioners with an interest in the Social Research (FHISER). For elled loosely on the research method- challenged to consider our respective region. Our presentations covered ology core course taught on the MSc in projects in new ways. the past five years, the African African Studies here at Oxford. Drawing the range of the region’s countries – Studies Center has partnered on our own academic experience – Under the leadership of Professor Leslie including Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia, with FHISER to bring two or Micah had recently completed the MSc Bank, FHISER is a dynamic, creative, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan and three students from Oxford in African Studies and I was a DPhil and lively research centre. We were im- to work with postgraduates at candidate in Social Anthropology – we pressed by the enthusiasm and engage- Kenya – and encompassed a variety of Fort Hare. Their students come focused on discussing ethnography, ment of Fort Hare students – many disciplinary approaches, as well as both from a variety of different quantitative and qualitative research of whom were studying while holding policy and academic research. African countries and are mostly methods, archives, and oral history. We down full-time or part-time jobs – enrolled on the MA in African offered guidance on students’ research and our lectures prompted energetic projects, suggesting relevant literature debates about positionality, research Speakers on the seminar covered Studies. and possible research methodologies, ethics, and local history. We could not a wide range of topics, including and held regular office hours where have asked for a warmer welcome, not state-building through business and they could come in and chat. only from the students but also from FHISER staff who welcomed us into infrastructure, business practice in their homes, sharing their lives and the health care sector, the evolution braais with us. We were even able to of guerrilla movements into accompany Dr Ntombana on a research outing for his own work on male initi- professional armies, the experiences In January, the seminar hosted a South Sudan ation and identity in the Eastern Cape, of diaspora returnees in development, Crisis Roundtable including Douglas Johnson which gave us a fascinating insight into the hydropolitics of the Nile, the (Independent), Annette Weber (SWP, Berlin), the local research context. intellectual history of reform, the Peter Biar Ajak (Cambridge), and Ahmed Al-Shahi (Oxford). The panel discussed the practice of the ‘protection of civilians’ December outbreak of violence in South framework, links between piracy and Sudan, to put events in historical context local political economy, changes in and assess the outlook. The roundtable was framing of friend and foe, and refugee organised in cooperation with the African perceptions of home country political Studies seminar. developments. In May, the series hosted a half-day conference, Revisiting the politics of state In addition to our seminar presentations, the survival: Violence, legitimacy and governance series hosted three significant events during in the Greater Horn of Africa. The conference the year: included presentations from Jason Mosley (Oxford), Amanda Poole (Indiana University of In October, we launched the seminar with Pennsylvania), Øystein H. Rolandsen (PRIO), a panel discussion, Remittances - Somalia William Reno (Northwestern University), David and beyond. The speakers - including Abdi Anderson (Warwick), and Sandrine Perrot Abdullahi (SOMSA), Edwina Thompson (Sciences Po) with responses by Christopher (Beechwood International), Laura Hammond Clapham (Cambridge), John Markakis (SOAS), Farhan Hassan (Somali Heritage (SOAS) and Sally Healy (Rift Valley Institute). Academic Network) and Anna Lindley (SOAS) Presentations covered Ethiopia, Eritrea, South - addressed the impacts of UK regulation on Sudan, Somalia, Kenya and Uganda. The remittance companies and on livelihoods in conference was held in conjunction with the Somalia and beyond. Following on from the African Studies Seminar. panel, Anna Lindley and Jason Mosley co- authored a briefing for the Rift Valley Institute, The seminar was convened by Jason Mosley, Challenges for the Somali Money Transfer research associate at the African Studies Sector. Centre, Toni Weis, doctoral candidate in Politics, Julianne Weis, doctoral candidate in the History of Medicine, Emma Lochery, 14 doctoral candidate in Politics, Alpha Abebe, 15 doctoral candidate in Development Studies and Grant Brooke, doctoral candidate in Theology and Religious Studies. Alumni Updates Please contact us with your alumni updates. Email: [email protected]

Oliver Aiken: I am starting a PhD at Leanne Johansson: I’m currently Alex Noyes is entering his second Harvard in African and African American writing up my DPhil Anthropology thesis year as a doctoral candidate in the Studies and the proposed project is a on place-making in Bakassi, on the Department of Politics and International Wambui Kamiru continuation of my master’s research Nigeria-Cameroon border. I also work Relations at Oxford. He will be on the connections between African part-time as a Communications and conducting fieldwork in Zimbabwe, writes: Americans and black South Africans Fundraising officer for a Cameroonian Kenya, and Togo for his research, which through Black Power. education NGO (COBI) and as a focuses on the intersection of post- consultant for an ecoagriculture NGO election power sharing and civil-military Katy Bruce-Lockhart: I recently (Food Basket For Africa) in South Africa. relations in Africa. published an article in the Journal of I recently married in March 2014 and Eastern African Studies based on the we’re expecting a new addition to the Qhelile Nyathi: I’ll be with the World master’s research I did at Oxford. I family next April. Bank starting January 2014, working am now registered for a doctorate at with the Agricultural Insurance Cambridge. Sebabatso Manoeli is doing a Development Program which aims to doctorate at Oxford on the history of engage the public and private sector Zoe Cormack finished her doctorate Sudanese liberation movements and in developing countries to create on Sudan and has a research post with taught the MSc methods course at sustainable insurance programs that Lotte Hughes at the Open University on Fort Hare. She was president of Afrisoc mitigate risk and improve financial an AHRC project focusing on Cultural and co-organised (with Akin Iwilade, resilience of small holder farmers. Rights and Kenya’s New Constitution. Sayeed Bhorat and others) the African Transformations student conference. Dan Paget is embarking on the Michelle Hay has a lectureship at the second year of his DPhil at the Politics University of Witwatersrand, where Tyler Mathews: This year I completed Department at the University of she is doing a doctorate, and recently a second combat deployment to Oxford. He has finally settled on One of the things I hated about graduating from Oxford was how narrative of wars that were fuelled by the need for equal rights for all, published an article in the Journal of Afghanistan as an US Army Infantry examining the election campaign in many choices I had. regardless of race. #Harambee63 also travelled to South Africa in 2014 Southern African Studies. Platoon Leader. My wife, Jordan, Tanzania in 2015. and was shown at the University of Wits. I have plans to have it travel to earned her credentials to begin practice There were several directions I could have gone in but only one me other parts of the world, which between 1948 and 1963 were part of the Anne Heffernan recently handed in her as a Nurse. Together in our off-time who could travel in those directions. revolution against the oppression of Black and Coloured people. http:// doctorate on student and youth politics during the last 18 months we hiked 20 It has been six years since I left my home off Wellington Square. wambuikamiru.wordpress.com/category/harambee63/ in Limpopo province, South Africa, and summits over 14,000 feet in Colorado. Since I left the falafel sandwiches from Green’s Café on St. Giles This year, which coincides with Kenya’s 50 years of independence from has a postdoc at the University of the This year we relocate from Colorado to Street and the 2am chips with mustard and ketchup from the kebab colonial rule, I am also focused on another art project that looks at Witwatersrand. Georgia where I will complete schooling vans. Six years since I gave my steel red bike to a Kenyan student Kenyan identity and if at all there exists a common identity. The project in preparation to be a Company who was about to embark on the crazy journey, that is being part of titled, “Who I Am, Who We Are” has so far through the Silent Room, John Hodges: I did some research for Commander in the Army. the University of Oxford community. collected over 600 voices answering questions on “Kenyaness.” Through Generation Investment Management. One month ago I finally collected my degree certificate, which I had a bodymapping exercise, my partner on this project Xavier Verhoest and The project centred on the Pay-As- Dalumuzi Mhlanga: I am currently vowed I would never collect. I was angry when I graduated from the I are visually writing Kenya at 50 with all its representations of the past, You-Go solar market, specifically enrolled in the 1+1 African Studies and University of Oxford. I was one of the many people who throughout present and future. We are asking, “What makes a Kenyan, Kenyan?” looking at investment opportunities MBA program at Saïd Business School, history have fought against the life change that is schooling at http://whoweareke.wordpress.com/ in early stage growth companies. The building on the foundation of the MSc. Oxford. I fought against Oxford because I could not see how it was market is most developed in East African Studies to connect ideas in Next year, I will be working on a third installation around the topic of linked to the person I thought I was. ethnicism. Africa, where electrification rates are social science with business practice on extremely low - places like Uganda and the continent. It was time to collect my certificate. My schooling at Oxford has afforded me the tools to critically analyse Tanzania are around 20%. The biggest My greatest fear after graduating from the University of Oxford topics around societal issues, politics and economics with the breadth of success story is Bangladesh, where Khumisho Moguerane, former was failing to become the great things that I believed were expected time. My character has found a unique way to explore these topics. They almost 3m households have installed a D.Phil representative, who started the of me. I embarked on becoming great, not sure at the time where were never exclusive to each other as I originally thought. solar home system in the last few years. doctoral mentoring scheme, finished I would need to place the greatness – just that I had to prove that I Oxford is not for cowards and neither is the world. In the past six years I her doctorate and is teaching with was every inch worth having gone to the University of Oxford. have learned that it is not about proving that I am smart but about using Dan Hodgkinson works on the history Sebabatso Manoeli at Fort Hare in it. I have learned that there are people who will love the fact that I went of student activism in Rhodesia and August 2014. She starts a one year In the time that I have been away from Oxford, I worked in public relations, telling the stories of an international organization that was to Oxford and there are others who will be intimidated and hate me for Zimbabwe, and is particularly interested lectureship at Leeds in September. it. I have learned that it does not matter. in exploring how higher education changing the lives of small-scale farmers in the developing world. For a technology firm in Kenya, I undertook research on how a has been used to constitute personal Abigail Niebuhr: I’ll be starting a What matters is that I use all the resources that my and political agency throughout the doctorate in African Studies and mobile application was linking families separated by war. I built the research protocol for a social media monitoring tool that analyses experience at Oxford has given me. So, I value my country’s history. He is the African Anthropology at Harvard. I am planning hate speech online. I had and I am raising two lovely children and relationships with my lecturers more. I value my Studies Centre’s current ORISHA D.Phil to look into xenophobia in South Africa I got divorced. Life happened to me in all its cycles of joy, love, scholar and doctoral representative. He and will be advised by Professors Jean sadness and loss. friendships with my classmates and I value even more is on fieldwork through 2014/15 during and John Comaroff. the community of eclectic souls who are collected which time Simukai Chigudu will take At different times these cycles drove me from and to art, something there and then scattered across the world. over as D.Phil rep. p Julianne and Toni Weis (both MSc that I love. I am now a full-time artist. Last year, I held my first 2008) welcomed a baby boy, Benjamin installation here in Kenya on the subject that interests me most – 16 Peter Weis, on April 25th, 2014. They are African History. Through a conceptual installation, #Harambee63, I One of the things I loved about graduating 17 explored Panafricanism and how the Mau Mau War fits into a global currently finishing their DPhils at Oxford. from Oxford was how many choices I had. African Studies Class of 2013–14

Ronnie Kawamara USA/Uganda Sami Kent UK Hassan Kochore Kenya Amelia Kuch Poland Caitlin Landuyt USA BA International Politics BA Politics BA Anthropology BA Museum Studies Juris Doctorate Law (University of California, Berkeley) (SOAS) (University of Nairobi) (University of Utrecht) (Boston University) In fire we trust: The 2009 The Assertion and The Road to Kenya: Naturalization of Burundian Criminalising consensual Burganda Riots Contestation of Nationalism Understanding (under) refugees in Tanzania - The sex between adolescents through the Zambian development and the nature debate on deterritorialized in South Africa: Policing Football Team of the (Post) Colonial State in identity and the meaning of sexual behaviour in a Northern Kenya through the lens citizenship revisited constitutional state of the Isiolo-Moyale highway

Nnesochi Ajukwu Nigeria/UK Christopher Appiah-Thompson Ghana Ruth Bookbinder Canada Rob Borthwick UK Ryan Brown USA Alexandra Letcher Netherlands Simon Makokha Kenya Richard McLaverty S Africa Sally Medley UK Dalamuzi Mhlanga Zimbabwe BA African and Classical Studies Mphil Public Administration BA African History BA History and Politics BA African History BA Modern History Bachelor of Education BA Politics and Social Studies BA Modern HIstory BA Social Studies (University of Pennsylvania) (University of Bergen) (University of Bristol) (University of Warwick) (US Duke University) (University of Durham) African History (Kenyatta University) () (University of Exeter) (Harvard University) Expectations and barriers to Political Affiliation, Electoral Representing Animals: The Iron Expectations: The Scaling Upward? An ‘You expected racialism and Framing Secession: Land, Police Intelligence and the Female Subsistence Accumulation from below: reintegration in Nigeria. An Administration and Democratic production of Wildlife films resurgence of industrial Ethnographic Study of you found it?’ A Case Study Deprivation and State (il) transition to democracy in Framers in Malen Chiefdom: A case study of women analysis of real and imagined Consolidation in Ghana: A case featuring Crocuta Crocuta mining in post-conflict Ponte City, Africa’s Tallest of the Enkeldoorn and Schools legitimacy in the secessionist South Africa Navigating the Land Market informal currency traders in processes of integration by study of the Okaikoi South and (Spotted Hyenas), 1990- Sierra Leone Residential Building Commission of Enquiry discourse of the Mombasa in Post-Conflict Sierra Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 2005 recent diaspora returnees Kpone Katumanso Constituencies 2008 and its Framing of Juvenile Republican Council in Coastal Leone to 2009 to Nigeria in the Greater Accra Region. Delinquency, 1944-1945 region of Kenya

Simukai Chigudu Zimbabwe Graeme Clements USA Bennett Collins USA Matt de la Hey South Africa Tessa Evans UK Jonathan Millard Canada Helen Morris Zimbabwe Michael Ndlovu South Africa Belinda O’Donnell New Zealand Olivia O’Malley UK Master of Public Health BA International Relations MA Scotland International Bachelor of Accounting Politics BA Public Administration BA History Economics for Development BA Politics BA Modern History Medicine and Dentistry (ICSTM) (Stanford University) Relations (University of St Andrews) (University of Stellenbosch) (University of Cambridge) (Carleton University) (Yale University) (University of Oxford) (Harvard University) (University of Durham) Politics of the Body: Moving beyond tradeoffs? The politics of indigeniety An investigation into Ethnicity in the ANC Foreign Direct investments Exploring Alternative Cosmopolitanism and the ‘We are fighting perception‘ The transformations of The social Imaginaries of A case study of shared in post - 1994 genocide Changing Agricultural in Nigeria: Lessons from the Zimbabwean Identities seeds of Nationalism: The - Exploring the dynamics Society, Sex, and Self: Women’s Peace Activism value creation in Cape Rwanda: Examining the Behaviour in Mbotyi, South real estate sector in Lagos Through Art: The politics making of Pixley KaIsaka of AFRICOM’s ‘Military Understanding the lived in Eastern and Northern Town, South Africa political space of Twa civil Africa State of The Harare International Seme, a Zulu Intellectual development‘ discourse. experiences of formerly Uganda society organisations Festival of Arts Leader of the early 20th abducted women in Gulu Century District, Northern Uganda

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